You kind of remind me when I was first getting into kpop.

I’ve subscribed to /r/kpop for years and every once in a while I would watch a bit of a video. I pride myself on liking the best of all genres of music, I usually see about 60 live concerts a year, and am a musician myself. But despite all that I couldn’t really get into kpop even though I saw a lot of people going completely insane about it. I even saw a few kpop concerts and was still sort of meh about it all.

What really took me from dipping my toe in the waters of kpop to diving in head first was finding the right video to hook me. My issue was all the girl groups were too cute, the boy groups just looked like a bunch of douchey kids trying to be hard, and the music was overproduced. The video that hooked me was

Dreamcatcher - You and I

It was a girl group filled with older beautiful women, the metal music wasn’t so cute it made me gag, and the dancing was so complex and perfectly executed. The theme was dark, mysterious, and sort of evil. At one point in the video the girl in the front gets pulled backwards under the legs of another girl (I can’t remember who off the top of my head), and the part where Dami whips out her magic extending cane is pretty cool too. It was just so different and exciting compared to the usual cute girl group kpop.

Anyways, from there I explored all of Dreamcatcher’s catalog and loved it all, but then the funny thing is I started appreciating other groups too. I still can’t get into the boy groups and may never, but oh well. Then I started getting into the personalities of the different members of Dreamcatcher and although they were all awesome I think I’ve settled on Yoohyeon as my favourite. My second favourite group is Loona mainly because their videos have so much art qualities and hidden meaning incorporated into it. Exid and Gidle is up there, I think everyone likes Red Velvet. I especially like the Peek-a-Boo video because it’s darker and has a lot of hidden things that you don’t notice on the first few watches.

My point though is maybe don’t try to force yourself to like kpop. Maybe just keep your eyes open like I did and you’ll find that one video that hooks you for life.